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Gut Wringing Machine - 1998 &
2003
Every Day Another Conflict
Don't got no cash or a future and most people don't like me
I don't get so hung up, I don't get so hung up
I'll worry about that tomorrow baby, I've got things to do
Oh yeah? So what'd'ya gonna do?
I'll tell you - I ain't gonna worry about nothin'
Got worry lines by your eyes cause you stress way too much
I can't relate to you, I can't relate to you
I take it one day at a time and do the things I need to do
See me laughing at my problems See me laughing at myself
Every conflict every hassle just another card that's
dealt to me
I have a friend who lives in a warzone across the sea
Lives in a place where there's constant
destruction, death and misery.
He said I wish I had your problems cause they're
nothing compared to mine.
Think about what he is saying.
You have a choice in your mind, Is it open or closed?
You think you got it rough You think you got it rough
You've got it easier than most So don't feel sorry for yourself
See me laughing at my problems See me laughing at myself
Every conflict every hassle just another card that's dealt to me
Chasing
Dreams
My opinion comes from my mind. I live my life by my design.
In the struggle to survive I find a way to get by.
If I had the power to change all of humanity I'd throw it all away.
I'd rebuild everything do it quite differently I'd find a better way.
This is just a dream but I try to do it any way.
Help someone get by so they make it through another day.
Wish I could do more but it's going to take much more than me.
Where the hell are you?
My opinion comes from my mind. I live my life by my design.
In the struggle to survive I find a way to get by.
Watch the people shop buying all their pretty things trying to fill a
void. They don't understand that there's more to life than luxury;
it makes me so annoyed. Is this really all life has to offer me?
All around the world I see so much pain and misery.
So many sit around and drown in their apathy;
I think I'm going to snap!
Should I face my fears? Will they go away?
Am I going mad? Don't you want to say?
Time keeps moving by - Running out of time!
Keep on getting older - Running out of time!
Should I chase my dreams? Running out of time!
Do I have a chance? Running out of time!
Can I change the world? Running out of time!
Running out of time! Running out of time! Running out of time!
Running out of time! I don't want to die with regrets!
Stay
Away
A mother called me the other day
Said her baby had run away
I said I don't know a thing about it
I wouldn't tell you if I did
Maybe she didn't like all your rules
Maybe she didn't like your cooking
Maybe she didn't like her daddy
coming in her room at night
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away -Don't come near me
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away -I don't need your shit
A friend was over the other night
She and her boyfriend had been in a fight
He beat her 'till she was black and blue
She said he threatened to kill her too
He's been stalking her for weeks now
Says there's nothing she can do
A court order will not stop him
Now she went and bought a gun -Better
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away -Don't come near me
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away
Stay away, Stay away, Stay Away -I don't need your shit
Desperation
I've seen that look before. I see it in your eyes.
I've seen that look before. You've lost control of your life,
control of your life.
Isolation, desperation, regulation, intimidation,
despite all the subjugation,
doesn't matter what they say cause I won't listen anyway.
I sit back and laugh. See I told you so.
You followed too many rules. Now there's no place to go,
No place to go.
Isolation, desperation, regulation, intimidation,
despite all the subjugation,
doesn't matter what they say cause I won't listen anyway.
I never liked to listen to anybody else
I guess that's why I'm happy and you're about to kill yourself!
Sucker . . . The joke's on you!
Why'd you fall in the trap? You believed their lies.
You joined the mainstream world. For that I despise you,
I despise you.
Isolation, desperation, regulation, intimidation,
despite all the subjugation,
doesn't matter what they say cause I won't listen anyway.
Wound
Up
I'm starting to feel nervous, full of anxiety.
My heart will nor stop shaking. My hands are trembling.
My adrenalin is rushing, my stomach's knotted up
Can't make this feeling go away. I know I'm gonna blow up!
Whoah-oh-oh, I kick and scream and break a chair.
Hate everything and I don't care.
Whoah-oh-oh, I smash a bottle down the stairs.
It doesn't matter who is there.
Whoah-oh-oh, I've lost control. I'm flipping out.
Can't get a grip, I scream and shout.
Whoa-oh-oh, Don't come near me I want to destroy
every god damned thing!
Don't want to take it out on you.
I don't know how to stop.
I try to make myself calm down, but I'm just too wound up.
I hate myself for doing this because you are my friend.
This viscous temper's killing me.
Can't put it to an end!
Whoah-oh-oh, I kick and scream and break a chair.
Hate everything and I don't care.
Whoah-oh-oh, I smash a bottle down the stairs.
It doesn't matter who is there.
Whoah-oh-oh, I've lost control. I'm flipping out.
Can't get a grip, I scream and shout.
Whoa-oh-oh, Don't come near me I want to destroy
every god damned thing!
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Gut
Wringing Machine
The Gut Wringing Machine.
I call it society.
It'll take your dreams away.
Live a dull drab life.
A family, home and wife.
What makes them this way?
The Gut Wringing Machine is the belief in God and state and country
the belief you've got to make something of yourself or the fear that you're
going to go to hell.
I don't care if I'm old and still a bum.
I know I'll still be having much more fun.
As all the people around me go through the wringer...
I put up my middle finger!
Don't want no daily grind. I live on what I find.
Just want to laze around.
My old man thirty years the same job. I'll tell you what he's got.
He's dying with regrets.
The Gut Wringing Machine has destroyed almost everyone around me.
Either they have bought into a game or they slowly went insane.
I just keep on traveling down the road. Nothing to prove to no one.
Just stay out of my way; just stay out of my way!
They'll never squeeze the life from me.
I'll never lose touch of my dreams.
I've dropped out of society.
I won't be put through the machine.
Over
the Top
I woke up screaming just the other night.
The worst I've ever felt in my whole life.
Nightmares of the things I saw today.
Wish things were different, but they never seem to change.
Time keeps moving faster, faster from a good time to disaster.
The good times too short, the bad times too long
the crazy times... turn around and here I go!
Another roller coaster ride. Feeling good and flying high.
Over the top and here I go, I sink into another low.
It could happen to me; it could happen to you, and if you die what will
you do? I hate thinking about it so much of the time.
I try to block it out so I won't lose my mind.
Another roller coaster ride. Feeling good and flying high.
Over the top and here I go, I sink into another low.
So many people are out just for themselves.
They can make this world a living hell.
With what I have I do the best I can.
For all I know tomorrow could be the end.
Time keeps moving faster, faster from a good time to disaster.
The good times too short, the bad times too long
the crazy times... turn around and here I go!
Rage
If you've got no respect for me then I've got no respect for you
Nothing that you say makes sense It isn't even relevant
I slam my fist against the wall It doesn't seem to help at all
I'm still filled with all this rage It doesn't ever go away
You can't understand any of this unless you've been there
It's hard to happy when your all screwed up
Pent up rage inside of me Pent up rage inside of me
Pent up rage inside of me Pent up rage inside of me
Sometimes I don't know who to to trust
I hate myself when I mess up
Sometimes I've got nowhere to turn
Stuck with myself why don't I learn?
My friends they feel the same as me
So they don't take it personally
We sit around and question why
Passing time until we die
You can't understand any of this unless you've been there
It's hard to happy when your all screwed up
Pent up rage inside of me Pent up rage inside of me
Pent up rage inside of me Pent up rage inside of me
If you've got no respect for me then I've got no respect for you
Nothing that you say makes sense It isn't even relevant
I slam my fist against the wall It doesn't seem to help at all
I'm still filled with all this rage It doesn't ever go away
You can't understand any of this unless you've been there
Pent up rage inside of me
It's hard to happy when your all screwed up
Pent up rage inside of me
You can't understand any of this unless you've been there
Pent up rage inside of me
It's hard to happy when your all screwed up
Pent up rage inside of me
Pent up rage inside of me Pent up rage inside of me
Pent up rage inside of me Pent up rage won't go away
False
Hope
I see the same old shit every single day
Living in this town I watch my life just fade away
Small man with a gun trying to prove his worth
Born into this hell I know that I was fucked at birth
Disorder reigns supreme
in this town of lost hope and broken dreams
Chaos finds away
to creep into your life every fuckin’ day
Cops busting heads gangsters acting tough
I’ve been through all this shit I know that I have had enough
They wonder why Johnny put a bullet in his head
Cause he'd rather fucking die than live in this shithole instead
Disorder reigns supreme
in this town of lost hope and broken dreams
Chaos finds away
to creep into your life every fuckin’ god damn day
Will it ever cease - No I don’t think so
So we can live in peace - What a joke
Create your own demise - Is all your doing
Blinded by your lives - Of false hope
Disorder reigns supreme
in this town of lost hope and broken dreams
Chaos finds away
to creep into your life every fucking god damn day
Prose
and Cons of Dying
Don't let me in your house. Don't let me get inside you.
Don't let me in or I'm going to take you away.
Don't cover up who you are.
Don't let the clothes be all that you're made.
Do you change yourself for acceptance?
Do you really care what they have to say?
Why do you need me to save you?
Why can't you start to think for yourself?
If you look to others for answers,
you'll get lost you'll become somebody else.
What do you find yourself doing, lately?
Rebelling one minute and then you conform the next?
Who do you find yourself following lately?
And do these people really deserve your respect?
We could go so far away to a land far away most people say in the sky.
But where do you go when you die?
There is no afterlife past this one. Is there afterlife past this one?
Where do you go when you die?
Where do you go when you die?
What do you find yourself doing, lately?
Rebelling one minute and then you conform the next?
Who do you find yourself following lately?
And do these people really deserve your respect?
Problem's
In Your Head(B.S.F.U.)
For god and country you say I should die - Bullshit!
For greed and profit is the reason why - Fuck you!
Your belief's are crushing human rights - Bullshit!
I decide for myself what is right - Fuck you!
You say the problem's in my head,
You say the problem's in my head,
You say the problem's in my head,
You say the problem's in my head - Fuck you!
The laws you make, they don't apply to you - Bullshit!
Why is liberty for the chosen few? - Fuck you!
You say the counterculture is to blame - Bullshit!
It's your Christian-right wing platform that's insane - Fuck you!
You say the problem's in my head,
You say the problem's in my head,
You say the problem's in my head,
You say the problem's in my head - Fuck you!
If you change someone against their will,
they'll hold the same opinion still.
STAGGER
ON
I stopped listening a long time ago
to what was said about so and so
Sometimes I want to be left alone
but sometimes it seems like there's no place to go
Oh oh, Oh oh
So many choices confront me every day
and all of life's pressures don't make it easy
I always seem to find my way
All by myself I make it through every day
Just when I'm about to give in
Just when I'm about to give up just when I'm about
to stagger off the cliff called life
I somehow find the strength to make myself go on
Even when I lose all hope and everything is wrong
There are days when I feel I've reached the end of my rope
I've just got to hang on and find a way to cope
As I travel down life's unknown path
the further I go the more I look back
If you want to do something than make it so
If you never try it then you'll never know
Oh oh, Oh oh
Just when I'm about to give in just when I'm about to give up
Just when I'm about to stagger off the cliff called life
I somehow find the strength to make myself go on
Even when I lose all hope and everything is wrong
There are days when I feel I've reached the end of my rope
I've just got to hang on and find a way to cope
Nothing will stop me. I swear I won't let anything get in my way.
Nothing can stop me now. Nothing can stop me now.
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing can stop me now!
Radio
You listen to the radio. It helps you get to sleep at night.
You listen to the radio. It helps you get to sleep at night.
And all the things you hear seem all right, seem all right.
And all the things they say seem all right, seem all right.
One day I started to listen to what the songs were saying.
All of my favorite songs had somehow lost their meaning.
Why don't they play a song about a kid whose life's in tatters?
Why won't the radio play any songs that really matter?
And all the things you hear can't help me, can't help me.
And all the things they say can't help me, can't help me.
You listen to the radio - Can't shut it off!
But something doesn't seem quite right.
You listen to the radio - Can't shut it off!
But something doesn't seem quite right.
And all the things you hear can't help me, can't help me.
And all the things they say can't help me, can't help me.
You listen to the radio, but you can't get to sleep at night.
You listen to the radio, but you can't get to sleep at night.